Updated: July 2, 2009 @ 11:43 p.m. with another app. Updated again: Sept. 16, 2009 @ 10:12 p.m.

The world doesn’t need another Twitter post. But, with the surging number of third-party Twitter applications and posts and stories surrounding the buzz service of the moment, I find it’s easy to get lost.
Admittedly, I’ve done my fair [...]

The funny thing is that with all their growth, Twitter and Facebook haven’t made a damn dime yet — despite all the hemming and hawing about their influence, most recently in the Iranian post-election dramatics.
With their incredible traffic, there was a time when advertising would seem like a natural choice. Even though they are considered [...]

Update: We lost.
Grant money in journalism is flowing freely in a tightened economy and a historic juncture in print media.
Seems like an opportunity.
So, my two partners and I, who founded Technically Philly, applied for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, a $10,000 grant to support new ideas in news. See our submission here.
We thought [...]

If you leave your car door unlocked, with the keys in the ignition, and your car is stolen, I don’t believe the crime is any less heinous.
Stealing is wrong, no matter the level of difficulty.
I read that somewhere recently and it resonated with me, reminding me of a Philadelphia story that speaks to the importance [...]

Get your twitter mosaic here.

Oh man, how done are you with Twitter news reports?
Mostly, news stories on Twitter include a nut graf that looks something like the following passage from a recent piece in the New York Times near-obsessive coverage on the social medium:
In its short history, Twitter — a microblogging tool that uses 140 [...]

I was interested to cover the convergence of social networks and fine arts institutions in a story running in today’s Inquirer. While it focuses on Philadelphia examples, there are broader implications, I think.
On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed a [...]

Gosh, I do hate the buzz words that new media terms have become.
A friend shared a post with an interesting graf:
Journalists are obsessed with Twitter. Obsessed. They use it, talk about it, analyze it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, love it, hate it, capitalize on it, become experts on it, monetize it, argue about it, and [...]